The lives of various people in a town in the North of England. The staple diet of births, ill-fated marriages and violent deaths continued. Storylines included the birth, in 1977, of Tracy Langton, ...

Writers include Peter Whalley, Joe Turner, Mark Wadlow, David Lane, Martin Allen, Jayne Hollinson, Jonathan Harvey, Daran Little, Chris Fewtrell, Catherine Hayes, Debbie Oates, John Stevenson, John ...

Laurence Olivier was the cinema's first great Shakespearean artist, and remains one of its foremost practitioners - only Orson Welles and Kenneth Branagh can rival him for achievement as both actor ...

George Dixon is the archetypal British bobby, tackling ordinary, everyday, rather than serious crime. He patrolled a world in which victims of petty theft and larceny were treated to a nice cup of tea ...

How a small studio brought new blood to the British horror film ...

Home (pronounced 'Hume') became a studio manager at BBC radio in 1960 and moved to television in 1964, just as Children's and Women's Programmes merged to form Family Programmes, run by Doreen ...

After London, Liverpool is perhaps Britain's most filmed city. The port city that was once described, by American 'beat poet' Allen Ginsberg, as "the centre of the consciousness of the human universe" ...

The life of French painter Henri 'Douanier' Rousseau, whose work was constantly misunderstood and ridiculed by those who failed to recognise its originality. A dramatised portrait of the painter Henri ...

1958's Easter march to Aldermaston enjoys landmark status in the annals of peaceful protest. Its filmed record is similarly recalled as a milestone for campaigning documentary.

Cast: May Clark (Alice), Cecil M.Hepworth (Frog), Mrs Hepworth (White Rabbit/Queen), Stanley Faithfull, Geoffrey Faithfull (Cards), Blair (Dog) At 800ft, Alice in Wonderland was the longest film yet ...

The life and death of the American black activist Malcolm X recalled in interviews, dramatic reconstructions, archive film and a reading from his autobiography. Seven Songs For Malcolm X experiments ...

It's Great To Be Young! has a fair claim to be not only one of Britain's first teenage musicals but also one of the most commercially successful of any musical made in Britain during the 1950s - it ...